Our Methodist Heritage

Recent News

President Jennifer Braaten attended a special event Recognizing Ferrum College’s 100th Anniversary (1913-2013) and founding by the United Methodist Women on Sunday, September
22, 2013 at New Hope United Methodist Church, United Methodist Women’s Sunday

Ferrum College is a liberal arts institution founded on Christian principles and related to the
United Methodist Church. It is our mission to educate students in the disciplines
of higher learning and to help them be thoughtful and perceptive, to be articulate
and professionally capable, and to be caring and concerned citizens of their community,
nation, and world. We therefore commit ourselves to developing the whole student,
both in openness to a wide range of intellectual discovery, and in the physical, spiritual,
and social aspects of life.

United Methodist Scholarship and Loan Programs

Since Ferrum College is proudly affiliated with the United Methodist Church, many
scholarship and loan opportunities exist for those students who are active members. Read more »

Endowed Chaplaincy

The Endowed Chaplaincy will be incorporated into the Ferrum College Campus Ministries
program within the Student Campus Life division and in collaboration with the Academic
Schools. The Chaplaincy will support a College Pastor in perpetuity and ensure on-going
support for the campus ministries program and leadership in both pastoral ministry
and interdenominational service projects. Read more >>

Campus Ministries

Ferrum College employs a full-time Chaplain who is available for counseling and interested
in helping students sort through the many different feelings that can accompany young
adulthood and campus life. Read more »

“Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, In all the ways you can, in all
the places you can, At all the times you can, to all the people you can, As long as
ever you can.” —John Wesley, founder of Methodism